Background
GOMORY, Ralph was born on May 7, 1929 in Brooklyn Heights, New York, United States. Son of Andrew L. Gomory and Marian Schellenberg.
mathematician and business executive
GOMORY, Ralph was born on May 7, 1929 in Brooklyn Heights, New York, United States. Son of Andrew L. Gomory and Marian Schellenberg.
Williams College, King"s College, Cambridge, and Princeton LIniv.
Lecturer and Assistant Professor, Princeton University 1957-1959. Joined International Business Machines Corporation 1959, Fellow 1964, filled various managerial positions including Director Mathematical Science Department, Director of Research 1970-1986, Viee-President 1973-1984, Senior Vice-President 1985-1989. President for Science and Technology 1986-1989.
Andrew Doctorate. White Professor-at-Large, Cornell University 1970-1976.
President Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, New York since 1989. Director Bank of New York, International Business Machines Corporation Asia/Pacifie Group, Nova Pharmaceutical Corporation, Industrial Research Institute.
Fellow, Econometric Society, American Academy, of Arts and Sciences 1973. Trustee, Hampshire College 1977-1986, Princeton University 1985-1989.
Honorary Doctor of Science (Williams College) 1973, (Polytechnic University) 1987.
Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters (Pace University) 1986. Lanchester.
Corporate Manager Board 1983-1989, Senior. North.A.S., National Academy, of Engineering. American Academy, of Arts and Sciences, Council on Foreign Relations, White House Science Council (since 1986).
Married Laura Secretan Dumper in 1954 (divorced in 1968).